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Saw. Chaucer.

A piece of timber sawed or cut of a small size, as for studs, rails, etc.

Having the form of, or resembling, sawdust or raspings.

n its face a spiral groove which is entered by teeth on the backs of the jaws. -- Scroll saw. See under Saw.

ertain. Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren. Gen. xxxvii. 14. Jesus saw that he answered discreetly. Mark xii. 34. Who 's so gross That seeth not this palpable device Shak.

obs. imp. sing. of See. Saw. Chaucer.

A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw. Broome.

Notched on the edge, like a saw.

Condition of being serrate; formation in the shape of a saw.

A notching, like that between the teeth of a saw, in the edge of anything. Martyn.

A division of Hymenoptera comprising the sawflies.

Like the teeth off a saw; jagged. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The state of being notched minutely, like a fine saw. Wright.

order in a particular manner; to prepare; as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw. Tables for to sette, and beddes make. Chaucer.

ve a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw.

A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural. I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye. Wycherley.

specially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body. He fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners. Acts x. 10, 11. If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me In one of those same sheets. Shak.…

A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below. I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles. Ray.…

To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter. "They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together." De Quincey.

On or toward one side; laterally; sideways. I saw them mask their awful glance Sidewise meek in gossamer lids. Emerson.