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- English Word Saturation Definition The act, process, or result of saturating a substance, or of combining it to its fullest extent.
- English Word Saturation Definition Freedom from mixture or dilution with white; purity; -- said of colors.
- English Word Saturator Definition One who, or that which, saturates.
- English Word Saturday Definition The seventh or last day of the week; the day following Friday and preceding Sunday.
- English Word Saturity Definition The state of being saturated; fullness of supply.
- English Word Saturn Definition One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.
- English Word Saturn Definition One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.
- English Word Saturn Definition The metal lead.
- English Word Saturnalia Definition The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.
- English Word Saturnalia Definition Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence.
- English Word Saturnalian Definition Of or pertaining to the Saturnalia.
- English Word Saturnalian Definition Of unrestrained and intemperate jollity; riotously merry; dissolute.
- English Word Saturnian Definition Of or pertaining to Saturn, whose age or reign, from the mildness and wisdom of his government, is called the golden age.
- English Word Saturnian Definition Hence: Resembling the golden age; distinguished for peacefulness, happiness, contentment.
- English Word Saturnian Definition Of or pertaining to the planet Saturn; as, the Saturnian year.
- English Word Saturnian Definition Any one of numerous species of large handsome moths belonging to Saturnia and allied genera. The luna moth, polyphemus, and promethea, are examples. They belong to the Silkworn family, and some are raised for their silk. See Polyphemus.
- English Word Saturnicentric Definition Appearing as if seen from the center of the planet Saturn; relating or referred to Saturn as a center.
- English Word Saturnine Definition Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn.
- English Word Saturnine Definition Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; -- the opposite of mercurial; as, a saturnine person or temper.
- English Word Saturnine Definition Of or pertaining to lead; characterized by, or resembling, lead, which was formerly called Saturn.
- English Word Saturnism Definition Plumbism.
- English Word Saturnist Definition A person of a dull, grave, gloomy temperament.
- English Word Satyr Definition A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness.
- English Word Satyr Definition Any one of many species of butterflies belonging to the family Nymphalidae. Their colors are commonly brown and gray, often with ocelli on the wings. Called also meadow browns.
- English Word Satyr Definition The orang-outang.
- English Word Satyriasis Definition Immoderate venereal appetite in the male.
- English Word Satyric Definition Alt. of Satyrical
- English Word Satyrical Definition Of or pertaining to satyrs; burlesque; as, satyric tragedy.
- English Word Satyrion Definition Any one of several kinds of orchids.
- English Word Sauba ant Definition A South American ant (Oecodoma cephalotes) remarkable for having two large kinds of workers besides the ordinary ones, and for the immense size of its formicaries. The sauba ant cuts off leaves of plants and carries them into its subterranean nests, and thus often does great damage by defoliating trees and cultivated plants.