saxicolinæ

pl. [Mod. Lat. saxicol (a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -inæ.] Ornith.: Stonechats; a family of Sylviidae (q.v.), with twelve genera and 126 species, absent from America (except the extreme northwest), abundant in the oriental region, moderately so in the Pale arctic, Ethiopian, and Australian. ( Tristram .) Bill depre ed at base; gape with diverging bristles, feet lengthened, tail rather short; head large. săx-ic-o-lous, a. [SAXICOLA.] Bot .: Growing on rocks. săx-if-ra-gą, subst . [Fem. of Lat. sax if ragus stone-breaking; Lat. saxum =a stone, a rock, and frag-, root of frango to break. Used first of an Adiantum supposed to break stones in the bladder, or named from the roots of the several species penetrating the rocks and tending to break them up.] Botany : Saxifrage, the typical genus of Saxi fragacce (q.v.). Calyx in five segments; petals Sachse a Saxon.] A. As substantive : 1. One of a race of people originally inhabiting the northern part of Germany, who invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries; an Anglo-Saxon. 2. The language spoken by the Saxons or AngloS axons. It is generally applied to the English spoken up to about 1150 or 1200, and succeeded by Middle English. [ENGLISH LANGUAGE.] Old Saxon is the old dialect of Westphalia and is closely allied to the old Dutch. 3. A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony. 4. Entom.: A night-moth, Hadena recti line a. B. As adjective: 1. Of or pertaining to the Saxons, their country or language; Anglo-Saxon. 2. Of or pertaining to Saxony or its inhabitants. Saxon-architecture, subst . The style of architecture in use in England from the time of its con version till the Conquest. It is easily recognized by its ma ive columns and semicircular arches, which usually spring from capitals without the intervention of the entablature. In the first Saxon buildings the moldings were extremely simple, the greater part consisting of fillets and platbands at right angles to each other, and to the general surface. The walls are of rough masonry, very thick, and without buttre es; the towers and pillars thick in proportion to height; the quoins are of hewn stone set alternately on end and horizontally; the arches of the doorways and windows are rounded or with triangular heads; window-openings in the walls are splayed onto the interior and exterior, the Saxon Architecture. window being in the middle of the thickne of the wall, and divided with a baluster of peculiar shape, especially in the belfries. In the earlier part of the Saxon period most of the say domestic edifices built were of wood or mud with thatched roofs. In plan they were very rude. The fire was kindled in the center of the hall, and, as there were no chimneys, the smoke made its way out through louvers, or by the doors or windows. Saxon-blue, s. Indigo di olved in concentrated sulphuric acid, forming a deep blue liquid used by dyers. †Săx-on-dom, s . [Eng. Sazon ; -dom .] A country or countries inhabited or colonized by Saxons; the descendants of Anglo-Saxons. *Sax-on-ish, a. [Eng. Saxon ; -ish.] Resembling Saxon. ( Earle : Philology , §17.) Săx-on-işm, s. [Eng. Saxon ; -ism.] Anidiom, phrase, or mode of speech peculiar to the AngloS axon language. "It is full of Saxonisms , which indeed abound more or le in every writer before Gower and Chaucer." - art on: Hist. Eng. Poetry, i. 49. Săx-on-ist, s. [Eng. Saxon ; -ist.] One versed in the Anglo-Saxon language. "Elstob, the learned Saxonist ." Note in Bp. Nicols on's Ep. Corr ., i. 68. Săx-on-ite, s. [Eng. Saxon ; -ite.] Min.: A soft earthy mineral, of a brownish color, used in crayon painting. săx-o-phone, s . [SAXHORN.] Music : A bra musical instrument with a single reed and a clarinet mouthpiece. The body of the instrument is a parabolic cone of bra provided with a set of keys. The saxophones are seven in number, the sopranino, soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, barytone, ba , and double ba , The compa of each is Saxophone. nearly the same. It is of great value in military combinations; in the orchestra except to replace the bases clarinet, it is all but unknown.