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Reservation. [R.]

Producing salivation.

The tarpum. [Local, U.S.]

amp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees. [Spelt also savannah.] Savannahs are clear pieces land without woods. Dampier. Savanna flower (Bot.), a West Indian name for several climbing apocyneous plants of the genus Echites. -- Savanna sparrow (Zoöl.), an American sparrow (Ammodramus s…

A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.

the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper. "A yearly hired servant." Lev. xxv. 53. Men in office have begun to think themselves mere agents and servants of the appointing power, and not agents of the government or the country. D. Webster.

A maidservant. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A body of servants; servants, collectively. [R.]

Of or pertaining to woods; composed of woods or groves; woody. [Written also sylvan.] Betwixt two rows of rocks, a silvan scene Appears above, and groves forever green. Dryden.

See Sylvanite.

The third month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year; -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of June.

Survivorship. [R.] His son had the survivance of the stadtholdership. Bp. Burnet.

to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic. The traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region . . . is usually exact as well as tenacious. De Quincey.

ls resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium. [Written also silvanite.]

An old name for tellurium. [Written also silvanium.]

Same as Tableau, n., 2.

A galvanometer in which current is measured by torsion.

A truant. [Obs.] Burton.

An inferior servant.

Want or neglect of observance; inobservance. Whitlock.