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w had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized. Quarantine flag, a yellow flag hoisted at the fore of a vessel or hung from a building, to give warning of an infectious disease; -- called also the yellow jack, and yellow flag.

A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.

The quality or state of being reparable.

of being repaired, restored to a sound or good state, or made good; restorable; as, a reparable injury.

In a reparable manner.

e act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway; -- in this sense, repair is oftener used. Arbuthnot.

Repairing, or tending to repair. Jer. Taylor.

Impregnated or tinctured with rhubarb. Floyer.

A salt of saccharic acid.

A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.

Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic. [Archaic]

One of certain vagrant or heretical Oriental monks in the early church.

A slow Spanish dance of Saracenic origin, to an air in triple time; also, the air itself. She has brought us the newest saraband from the court of Queen Mab. Sir W. Scott.

Anciently, an Arab; later, a Mussulman; in the Middle Ages, the common term among Christians in Europe for a Mohammedan hostile to the crusaders. Saracen's consound (Bot.), a kind of ragewort (Senecio Saracenicus), anciently used to heal wounds.

Of or pertaining to the Saracens; as, Saracenic architecture. "Saracenic music." Sir W. Scott.

See Sarrasin.

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

A word used to emphasize a statement. [Obs.] Out she shall pack, with a sassarara. Goldsmith.

Any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles of the genus Scarabæus, or family Scarabæidæ, especially the sacred, or Egyptian, species (Scarabæus sacer, and S. Egyptiorum).

Same as Scarab.