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Sausage – Scale Moss

Sausage

an article of food, consisting of chopped or minced meat, as pork, beef, or veal, seasoned with sage, pepper, SAVANNAH salt, etc., and stuffed into properly cleaned entrails of the ox, sheep, or pig, twisted at short intervals into sections

Sauterne

a kind of white Bordeaux wine, made from grapes grown in the neighborhood of Sauternes, in the department of Gironde, France.

Savage Island

a small coral island in the Pacific ocean, between the Samoan and Tongan islands. It is about 30 miles in circuit. It was annexed by Great Britain in 1888 and to New Zealand in 1901. Pop. 3,880.

Savanna

or SAVANNAH, an extensive open plain or meadow in a tropical region, yielding pasturage in the wet season, and often having a growth of undershrubs. The word is used chiefly in tropical America.

Savanna

a city of Illinois, in Carroll co. It is on the Mississippi river and on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroads. Its industries include storage elevators and a sash and door factory.

Pop. (1910) 3,691; (1920) 5,237.

Saxifraga

in botany, saxifrage, the typical genus of Saxifragaceæ. Perennial plants, rarely herbs, with white or yellow, or rarely red or purple, cymose inflorescence. Known species, 160. SAXIFRAGACEÆ Not found in Australia, South Africa, or the South Sea Islands; distributed in most other regions.

Saxifragacee

or SAXIFRAin botany, Baxi or SAXIFRA- GEÆ, in botany, saxifrages; the typical order of the alliance Saxifragales, herbs often growing in patches. Known genera 19, species 310. (Lindley.) Genera 19, species 250, including the Ribesieæ. (Sir Joseph Hooker.) Most of the species are from the North Temperate and Arctic zones.

Saxon Switzerland

a name given to part of Saxony, on the Elbe, S. E. of Dresden and bordering on Bohemia. It consists of a group of mountains of sandstone, with valleys and streams of the most picturesque character, in which isolated masses of sandstone, large and small, occur in very fantastic shapes. It is about 24 miles long and equally wide.

Scabbard

the sheath of a sword or bayonet, made of metal, wood, leather, or paper.

Scaglia

a red, white, or gray argillaceous limestone occurring in the Venetian Alps, and believed by De Zigno to be the age of the chalk. The beds are usually thin, fragile, and almost schistose, whence the name of scaglia. of wood, ivory, or metal, divided into

Scale Fern

a popular name for a British species of fern (Ceterach officinarum), so named from the imbricated tawny scales at the back of the fronds.

To this plant was formerly attributed a marvelous influence over the liver and spleen.

Scale Moss

a popular name given to the Jungermannias, plants resembling moss, and belonging to the order Hepati- They grow on the trunks of trees, in damp earth, and in similar places, and are so called from the small scale-like leaves. cx.