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e harbor; a safe bridge, etc. "The man of safe discretion." Shak. The King of heaven hath doomed This place our dungeon, not our safe retreat. Milton.

ive way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.

The Arsenal in Venice; -- so called from having a figure of an archer over the door. Shak.

A sailor; -- usually qualified by old. [Colloq.] Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts. Hawthorne.

To smooth or polish with sandpaper; as, to sandpaper a door.

A Hindoo system of philosophy which refers all things to soul and a rootless germ called prakriti, consisting of three elements, goodness, passion, and darkness. Whitworth.

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…

The sakti or wife of Brahma; the Hindoo goddess of learning, music, and poetry.

The principal garment of a Hindoo woman. It consists of a long piece of cloth, which is wrapped round the middle of the body, a portion being arranged to hang down in front, and the remainder passed across the bosom over the left shoulder.

The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes.

egular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl. David . . . scrabbled on the doors of the gate. 1. Sam. xxi. 13.

To utter suddenly a sharp, shrill sound; to screech; to creak, as a door or wheel.

; to press, fasten, or make firm, by means of a screw or screws; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press.

hing coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.

The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like. Scuttle butt, or Scuttle cask (Naut.), a butt or cask with a large hole in it, used to contain the fresh water for daily use in a ship. Totten.

; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping; as, to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship.

passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases. Received the sentence of the law. Shak.

then in the opposite; to meander; to wind; to serpentine. [R.] The river runs before the door, and serpentizes more than you can conceive. Walpole.

nts, sometimes used as food. See Benne. Open Sesame, the magical command which opened the door of the robber's den in the Arabian Nights' tale of "The Forty Thieves;" hence, a magical password. -- Sesame grass. (Bot.) Same as Gama grass.

A treatise for authoritative instruction among the Hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the Vedas. [Written also sastra.]