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Salt Lake City

UTAH MORMON TEMPLE AND TABERNACLE SANTIAGO DE CUBA ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK LAYING A GAS BUOY IN THE ST. LAWRENCE SAULT STE. MARIE LAKE WASHINGTON CANAL, SEATTLE

Sheep Ranch

COLORADO Opposite page 388, Vol. VIII TRAVELING BY ELEPHANTS, SIAM PLOWING WITH WATER BUFFALO, SIAM INTERIOR OF SHOE FACTORY SILKWORM- Moтн, COCOON AND EGGS SILKWORMS ON MULBERRY LEAVES NESTS OF SILKWORM COCOONS Opposite page 20, Vol. IX ROME-Colored

Sabbatical Year

in Judaism, the name given to every seventh year, during which the Hebrews were not to sow their fields or prune their vineyards (Exod. xxiii. 10, 11; Lev. xxv. 2-7 ; Deut. xv. 1-11; xxxi. 10-13). the name given to any form of doctrine

Sabine Lake

a body of water formed by an expansion of the Sabine river, on the boundary of Louisiana and Texas, about 5 miles N. of the Gulf of Mexico. It is about 18 miles long, averages about 9 miles in breadth, and has an area of about 150 square miles.

Saber

or SABRE, a sword having a curved blade, specially adapted for cutting.

Sabicu

or SAVICU, a leguminous tree, Lysiloma Sabicu, native of Cuba.

It furnishes an exceedingly heavy and hard wood, with a texture as smooth, close, and firm as ivory almost, and of a rich, warm, red color. It is much employed for shipbuilding and cabinet making.

Sabine

a river of the United States, forming the boundary between Louisiana and Texas. It rises in northeastern Texas, and after a course of some 500 miles flows into the Gulf of Mexico through Sabine Bay. It is too shallow to be of much use for navigation.

Sable

in heraldry, black, one of the tinctures used in blazonry. In engraving it is expressed by perpendicular crossed by horizontal lines.

Sacramento

a river of the United States, in California. It rises in Lassen co., flows W. then S. and drains the central valley of California from the N.

Its course is about 500 miles, 320 of which are navigable for small vessels. It discharges its waters into the Suisun Bay on the line between Contra Costa and Solono counties.

Sacristan

the same as sexton, which is a corrupted form of the same , word; an officer in a church whose duty it is to take care of the church, the sacred vestments, utensils, etc.

Sacristy

the apartment in or connected with a church intended for the keeping of the sacred vestments and utensils while not in use, and in which also the clergy and others who take part in religious ceremonies array themselves for service.

Sacrum

in anatomy, the bony structure which forms the basis or inferior extremity of the vertebral column.