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Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Saxifragaceæ) of which saxifrage is the type. The order includes also the alum root, the hydrangeas, the mock orange, currants and gooseberries, and many other plants.

Breaking or destroying stones; saxifragous. [R.] -- n.

Any plant of the genus Saxifraga, mostly perennial herbs growing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions. Burnet saxifrage, a European umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella Saxifraga). -- Golden saxifrage, a low half-sacculent herb (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium) growing in rivulets in Europe; also, C. Americanum, commo…

Dissolving stone, especially dissolving stone in the bladder.

conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries. (b) Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon. (c) A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony.

relating to the saxons or Anglo-Saxons.

An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language. T. Warton.

One versed in the Saxon language.

See Mountain soap, under Mountain.

Saxony yarn, or flannel made of it or similar yarn.

A fine grade of woolen yarn twisted somewhat harder and smoother than zephyr yarn.

A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.

A compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc.

Half Saxon; -- specifically applied to the language intermediate between Saxon and English, belonging to the period 1150- 1250.

One half of the axis of an

Of or pertaining to the nasal septum and the maxilla; situated in the region of these parts. -- n.

A tax levied upon land alone, irrespective of improvements, -- advocated by certain economists as the sole source of public revenue.

A genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla.

The parallax of the sun, that is, the angle subtended at the sun by the semidiameter of the earth. It is 8."80, and is the fundamental datum.

r of similar complex resins obtained from the bark of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family. The most common of these is liquid storax, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant.