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Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory. Sanitary Commission. See under Commission.

The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the…

Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pichardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.…

Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc. [U.S.] "Stewed apple sauce." Mrs. Lincoln (Cook Book).

To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames. God save all this fair company. Chaucer. He cried, saying, Lord, save me. Matt. xiv. 30. Thou hast . . . quitted all to save A world from utter loss. M…

One who saves, preserves, or delivers from destruction or danger.

uage, as shown particularly in the "Heliand", a metrical narration of the gospel history preserved in manuscripts of the 9th century.

one fifth in value. Locke. The scarcest of all is a Pescennius Niger on a medallion well preserved. Addison.

A bard among the Highlanders of Scotland, who preserved and repeated the traditions of the tribes; also, a genealogist. [Written also senachy.] [Scot.]

The faculty or propensity which impels to reserve, secrecy, or concealment.

Having self-control; reserved; uncommunicative; wholly engrossed in one's self.

Capable of being preserved. [R.]

to move. -- To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate from the rest; to reserve. -- To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be a little wider than the thickness of the b…

To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.

To render more shrill or piercing. Inclosures not only preserve sound, but increase and sharpen it. Bacon.

A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.

Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach. What makes you so shy, my good friend There's nobody loves you better than I. Arbuthnot. The embarrassed look of shy distress And maidenly shamefacedness. Wordsworth.

In a shy or timid manner; not familiarly; with reserve. [Written also shily.]

Something serving to indicate the existence, or preserve the memory, of a thing; a token; a memorial; a monument. What time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign. Num. xxvi. 10.

e bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.