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[ Saxophone. saxotromba (sak-sō-trom'- ba), n . [ Sax (see sax- horn) + It. tromba , a trumpet.] Same as sax- horn . saxtrył (saks'tri), n . Same as sextry , sacristy . sax-tuba (saks'tū"ba), n. [ Sax (see saxhorn ) + L. tuba , a trumpet.] One of the larger forms of saxhorn. tonshire, England; b, baluster-window, in same church; c, an angle in long and short are work. rounded, or sometimes these openings have triangular heads, their jambs of long and short work carrying either rudely carved imposts or capitals with square abaci. Sometimes heavy moldings run the arches, and when or arches conjoined in an arcade they are carried on heavy low shafts formed like balusters. Window-openings in the walls splay from both the interior and the exterior, the position of the windows being in the middle of the thickne of the wall.-Saxon blue. (a) Same as Saxony blue (which see, under blue). (b) The blue obtained on wool by the use of Saxony blue. It is brighter than the blue of the in digo-vat, but not so fast to light or alkalis. Saxondom (sak'sn-dum), n. [ Look now at American Saxondom , and at that little fact of the sailing of the Mayflower, two hundred years ago, from Delft Haven in Holland! Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship, iv. Saxonic (sak-son'ik), a . [ Saxonicus , Saxo (n-), Saxon: see Saxon .] Of or per- taining to the Saxons; written in or relating to the Saxon language; Saxon: as, Saxonic documents. Saxonical (sak-son'i-kal), a. [ Saxonic + -al.] Same as Saxonic . Peaceable king Edgar, that Sax on i call Alexander. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 7. Saxonisht, a. [ Saxon + -ish .] Same as Saxon . Saxonism (sak'sn-izm), n. [ Saxon + -ism .] Bale , Life of Leland. An idiom of the Saxon or early English language. The language [of Robert of Gloucester)... is full of Saxonisms , which indeed abound, more or le , in every writer before Gower and Chaucer. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, I. 49. Saxonist (sak'sn-ist), n . [ Saxon + -ist.] A Saxon scholar; one versed in Saxon or AngloS axon. ments of the bra wind group, a kind of valve invented by Adolphe Sax about 1840. Its peculiarity lies in its ingenious arrangement to secure pure intonation and to maintain an even quality of tone throughout the compa of the instrument. = sayl (sā), v.; pret. and pp. said, ppr. saying. [ ME. sayen, sain, seyen, seien, sein, seggen, siggen (pret. saide, seide, sayde, seyde, seo sede, pp. sayd, seid, seyd ), Thou may sey a word to-dey That vij zere after may be for-thought. Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 53. It is an epilogue or discourse, to make plain Some obscure precedence that hath tofore been sain . Shak ., L. L. L., iii. 1. 83. All's one for that, I know my daughters minde if I but say the word. Heywood, Fair Maid of the Exchange (Works, II. 60). And Enid could not say one tender word. Tennyson, Geraint. 2. To tell; make known or utter in words. IMG:content-0194.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To recount; repeat; rehearse; recite: as, to say a le on or one's prayers; to say ma ; to say grace. They... seyden hire ensamples many oon. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 1850. What Tongue shall say Thy Wars on Land, thy Triumphs on the Main? Prior, Ode to the Queen, st. 3. The "Angelus," as it is now said in all Catholic countries, did not come into use before the beginning of the xvi. century, and seems to have commenced in France. Rock , Church of our Fathers, III. i. 339. 41. To call; declare or suppose to be. By cause euery thing that by nature fals down is said & whatsoeuer naturally mounts vpward is said in the motion of the voice. IMG:content-0195.png:[blocks in formation] 3. A maxim; a saying; a saw. That strange palmer's boding say . Scott , Marmion, iii. 16. says (sā), n. [Prob. a var. of sie , ult. AS. sig an , sink: see siel .] A strainer for milk. [Scotch.] sayt. An obsolete preterit of seel . Chaucer . Say brook platform. See platform . 4. Turn to say something, make a proposition, or reply: as, “It is now my say ." [Colloq.] sayet (sā). Same as say1, says , say4. say2t (sā), n. [By apheresis from a ay , e ay : see a ay , e ay .] 1. A ay; trial by sample; sample; taste. In the first chapter,... to give you a say or a taste what truth shall follow, he feigneth a letter sent from no Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., [1850), p. 78. man. Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes.