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Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory. -- San"a*tive*ness, n.

An establishment for the treatment of the sick; a resort for invalids. See Sanitarium.

Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative. Sanatory ordinances for the protection of public health, such as quarantine, fever hospitals, draining, etc. De Quincey.

Stones left after sifting. Smart.

Satan. [Obs.] Chaucer. Wyclif.

The beluga, or white whale.

Having the ratio of one and one third to one (as 4 : 3).

Of or pertaining to plants of the natural order Solanaceæ, of which the nightshade (Solanum) is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more.

A sulphur mine.

A condition of impoverishment of the blood; a morbid state in which the red corpuscles, or other important elements of the blood, are deficient.

Of or pertaining to spanæmia; having impoverished blood.

One in control of the stage during the production of a play. He directs the stage hands, property man, etc., has charge of all details behind the curtain, except the acting, and has a general oversight of the actors. Sometimes he is also the stage director.

Of or pertaining to a subdean or subdeanery.

A salt of sulphocyanic acid; -- also called thiocyanate, and formerly inaccurately sulphocyanide. Ferric sulphocyanate (Chem.), a dark red crystalline substance usually obtained in a blood-red solution, and recognized as a test for ferric iron.

A kind of seedless raisin produced near Smyrna in Asiatic Turkey. Sultana bird (Zoöl.), the hyacinthine, or purple, gallinule. See Illust. under Gallinule.

The rule or dominion of a sultan; sultanship.

The state of being supernatural; belief in supernatural agency or revelation; supernaturalism.

A supernaturalist.

Of or pertaining to supernaturalism; supernaturalistic.

Same as Banxring.