Sagar
a low, mouth of the Hugli, the holiest branch of the Ganges; it is particularly sacred in the estimation of the Hindus. Multitudes of pilgrims annually resort to it in January, and after the three days' festival of purification is over a great fair is held. The island has an area of 225 square miles, but is very thinly inhabited, the greater part being jungle, the haunt of tigers and other wild animals. A lighta meteorological observatory, and a telegraph station are the chief ouse (1808), buildings.
town in the Central Provinces of India, in a hilly tract, on a feeder of the Jumna. There are here a Mahratta fort, now barracks, and a magazine, as well as a jail (1846) converted into British stores, and a park (1862); and there were formerly a college (removed to Jabalpur) removed to Calcutta). Saand a mint (rer ( gar has a trade in salt, sugar, and cloth. Pop. about 44,000. low, swampy island at the
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Sage Cock
the Centrocercus urophasianus, called also cock of the plains. It is the largest of the American grouse, and the male has a distinctive character in the bare spaces of orange-colored skin on each side of the neck, which he inflates during the mating season. Range from the Black Hills to California and Oregon, and from British Columbia nearly to Arizona. It feeds on the wormwood of the plains, and in consequence its flesh becomes so bitter as to be unfit for food.
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Sagebrush
low, bitter, shrubby plants of the composite family. Botanically, they are known as artemesia. They are closely allied to wormwood, southernwood, and the common mugworts of old fields. Extensive tracts in the great plains of the West are covered with this monotonous, homely shrub, through which the traveler sees an occasional coyote slinking away. The common sagebrush is a gray, shabby bush, reaching an extreme height of twelve feet. Occasionally a gnarly old stem attains a diameter of several inches.
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Saggers
Cast-iron boxes in which articles of cast iron are packed, along with red-hematite ore, or smithy scales, to be converted into malleable cast iron by a process of decarbonization in the annealing-furnace. See MALLEABLE CAST IRON.
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Sagging
If, on account of unequal distribution of the means employed for lifting flasks, etc., in the foundry, some portion of the suspended object should bend out of parallel, this term would, by moulders, be used to indicate that feature. Or, when some mould surface, as a cope-face, etc., betrays a disposition to separate from the main sand structure on account of faulty workmanship, or otherwise, it is then said to sag.
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Saghalin
or Saghalien, sa-ga-len, an Asiatic island lying off the coast of Russian Manchuria. It is about 670 miles long, and from 20 to 150 broad. The area is about 24,500 square miles, equal to that of West Virginia . Geologically, this island is the most northerly in the arc of continental islands that inclose the Sea of Japan. Mountain ridges rise to a height of 5,000 feet. The intervening plains reach an altitude of 600 feet above the sea. One river is navigable by rafts and light boats for 250 miles. The soil consists of sands, marls, and clays. The island is clothed with forests, mostly coniferous. The range of altitude and latitude is such that the fir, the larch, the bamboo, elder, poplar, elm, wild cherry, willow, maple, ash, and oak are found in varying proportions. Fur-bearing animals, particularly the bear, the fox, and the sable are numerous. The reindeer ranges in the north. Tigers are met occasionally in the southern end of the island. The coast fisheries are valuable. The island is divided by an east and west boundary between Russia and Japan. This island has been inhabited evidently from the earliest times. Flint implements and primitive pottery are found, as well as remains of the bronze age . The Ainos are the aborigines of the island. They are enslaved practically by the Japanese, who require them to fish and collect seaweed for exportation. Petroleum and naphtha exist. Coal is mined in the north by Russian convicts.
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Sagina
in botany, the pearlwort, a genus of Alsineæ. Sepals four or five; petals four or five, entire or emarginate, sometimes wanting; stamens 4 to 10; styles four or five; capsule four- to fivevalved. Known species eight, from the temperate zones. All but S. saxatilis and S. nivalis, which are Alpine species, are common.
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Saginaw Bay
the largest indenture of Lake Huron on the United States side entering the S. peninsula of Michigan, in the eastern part of the State. It is 60 miles long, 30 miles in extreme width, and is bordered by Iosco Bay, and Tuscola and Huron counties. It affords excellent navigation, and is a safe harbor for large vessels. Its surface is usually rough, but not dangerously so, when the open lake is comparatively smooth. The color of the water is plainly different from that of the open lake, being a brownish-green, often termed "tea-water."
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Sagitta
in astronomy, the Arrow; a small northern constellation, one of the 48 ancient asterisms. It is situated between the hill of the Swan and Aquila, and is traversed by a branch of the Milky Way. A nebula in Sagitta was resolved by Sir William Herschel Herschel, in 1783, into a cluster of stars. In geometry, (1) the versed sine of an arc. (From the resemblance of an arrow standing upright on the string of a bow.) (2) The abscissa of a curve. In zoölogy, the sole genus of Chætognatha, with several species, found on the surface of the ocean all over the world. They are transparent unsegmented worms, about an inch long. The genus presents analogies with both the Nematoidea and the Ammelida.
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Sagittate
in botany, a term applied to the form of leaf shaped like the head of an arrow; triangular, hollowed at the base, with angles at the hinder part.
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Sagoin
or SAGOUIN, the native South American name of a genus (Callithrix) of Brazilian monkeys of small size, and remarkably light, active, and graceful in their movements.
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