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Sapper – Sarrusophone

Sapper

in military language, a term applied in England to officers and men of the Royal Engineers, who were originally organized as a corps of "Sappers and Miners." In the United States the work of the old sappers and miners is now done by the Engineer Corps.

It

Saracen

an Arabian or other Mus-

Sarasate

PABLO MARTIN ME- SARATOFF servatoire in 1856. He became one of the greatest concert violinists of his time, and no violinist ever traveled more extensively. He composed for the violin romances, fantasias, and transcriptions of Spanish airs and dances. He died in Biarritz in 1908.

Saratoga Lake

a lake in Saratoga co., N. Y., 4 miles E. of Saratoga Springs. It is about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide.

Sarcina

a plant of doubtful affinity, probably a fungus, consisting of minute quadrilateral bodies in fours, or some multiple multiple of four. S. ventriculi was first observed observed by Goodsir in human vomit.

Sarcoma

plural SARCOMATA, cancerous growth, consisting of connective tissue cells retaining their embryonic condition. Those that remain in this elementary condition are round cells; those which advance one stage further are spindle-shaped; and a third kind originating in the bone, and having large nucleated myeloid cells, are called myeloid. The first is the most malignant.

Sard

a semi-precious stone of very compact variety of chalcedony presenting on a fractured surface a dull horn-like Presenting aspect; color, pale yellowish-red, shades of brown, transparent to translucent.

It was much esteemed by the ancient gem engravers.

Sardica

anciently a town in Lower Dacia, on the site of the modern Bulgarian town of Sofia or Sophia. The town is chiefly celebrated as the place where an ecclesiastical council was held in 343, at which Athanasius defended himself against the Arians. wiest

Sardonyx

onyx consisting of alternate layers of sard and nearly opaquewhite chalcedony. It is the most beautiful and the rarest variety of onyx, and that which was held in the greatest esteem by the ancients for engraving into cameos.

SARDOU a

Sargassum

a genus of Algæ. S. bacciferum is the gulf-weed of the Atlantic. Its stems are much employed in South America, under the name of goitresticks, in the treatment of goitre. Their beneficial effects are due to the large proportion of iodine existing in the plant,

Saros

an ancient Assyrian astronomical period, the origin and exact length of which are unknown, though they have been the subject of much disputation. By some authors the saros has been confounded with the Metonic cycle.

Sarrusophone

a form of wind instrument of the horn class. They are made en suite, of sizes and compass to take different parts in concerted pieces music, and are known as the cornets and saxhorns by names, as soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone, bass, etc.; by the pitch, as B flat, E flat, etc. pieces of