These 17 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Sagina, Saginaw Bay, Sagitta.
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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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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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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saj-i-ta ri-us, in astronomy, the ninth sign of the zodiac, into which the sun enters November 22d. The constellation comprises eight visible stars. In ancient mythology, the story runs that the centaur, Chiron, was changed into this constellation and named Sagittarius, which means the archer. On charts and celestial globes, the constellation is represented by a centaur just shooting an arrow from his bow. See Centaur; Chiron ; Zodiac
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in astronomy, the ninth sign of the zodiac, into which the sun enters Nov. 22. The constellation consists of eight visible stars. It is represented on celestial globes and charts by the figure of a centaur in the act of shooting an arrow from his bow.
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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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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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a former town of Spain, S. of the Ebro, about 3 miles from the coast. It is famous in Roman history; its siege by Hannibal in 219-218 b. c. having given rise to the second Punic War. The site is occupied by the modern town of Murviedro.
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a town of British India, in the Northwest Provinces; 111 miles N. of Delhi; is the station for the hill sanatorium of Masuri. It has an old Rohilla fort, a handsome new mosque, St. Thomas' Church (1858), numerous administrative offices, and government botanical gardens (1817). Pop. about 63,000.
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a common term used by natives of India and Persia in addressing or speaking of Europeans. The feminine form is Sahibah.
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in mineralogy, a name formerly applied to a grayish-green variety of pyroxene from Sala; but now adopted by Dana and others for a group, viz., the lime-magnesia-iron pyroxene. monkey of Brazil.
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The Egyptian name for the spiritual or incorruptible body. It is figured in the Book of the Dead as a lily springing from the Khat or corruptible body.
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the name applied to the weeper- best is made of flax, and combines flexibility with lightness and strength.
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in zoölogy, a genus of Bovidæ, with one species, S. tartarica, from eastern Europe and western Asia. They differ so much from all other antelopes that some naturalists have made them a distinct family. Also, any individual of the genus Saiga. They are about the size of a fallow deer, tawny yellow in summer, and light gray in winter; horns, found only in the male, less than a foot long, slightly lyrate and annulated.
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capital of French Cochin- China; on the Saigon, a branch of the delta of the Mekhong; about 35 miles from the sea. The present town has grown up under French influences since 1861, and with its fine streets and squares and boulevards is one of the handsomest cities of the East. It has a magnificent , a cathedral (1877), governor's palace two higher colleges, an arsenal, floating dock and drydock, administrative offices, and zoological garden. and a botanical Hong Kong. It exports every year rice, chiefly to China, the Philippines, Japan, and the Straits Settlements. The remaining exports include fish, salt, cotton, wood, beans, and hides. Previous to the French occupation (1861) Saigon, though only a collection of common Siamese huts, was the capital of the province of Lower Cochin-China. Pop. (1919) 64,496, principally Chinese, Annamese, and French.
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a strong linen, cotton, or hempen cloth used in making sails. The
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the act of moving on water, or the movement of a ship or vessel impelled by the action of wind on her sails; act of setting sail or beginning a voyage; also, smooth impulsion through the air, as in a balloon; or the aërial passage of a bird. In navigation, the art of directing a ship on a given line laid down on a chart. It is called plane sailing when the chart is constructed on the supposition that the surface of the ocean is an extended plane; and globular sailing, chart is a globular chart, or when the constructed on the hypothesis that the ship being then earth is a sphere, the supposed to be sailing on the arc of a circle. Sailing order, or order of great sailing, is any determinate order preusually served by a squadron of ships. It implied, in the days of sailing fleets, one, two or three parallel columns, but it is at the disposition of the admiral or commodore. Saigon (properly Gia-dinh) is the most SAINFOIN, plant, Onobrychis sati Leguminosæ, a native a of central and southern Europe and part of Asia. It has been in cultivation for centuries for the purpose of supplying fodder for cattle either in the green state or converted into hay. It is a pretty plant with narrow pinnate leaves and long spikes of bright pink flowers; stem 12-2 feet high.
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