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To conduct safely; to give safe-conduct to. [POetic] He him by all the bonds of love besought To safe-conduct his love. Spenser.

A wing; a van. [Poetic] Like an eagle soaring To weather his broad sails. Spenser .

Quality of being salient; hence, vigor. "A fatal lack of poetic saliency." J. Morley.

The willow; willow twigs. [Poetic] Tennyson. And bend the pliant sallow to a shield. Fawkes. The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb. Emerson.

amazed at what he saw, Made haste to sanctify the bliss by law. Dryden. Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line. Pope.

Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse.

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

A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.

One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes. [Written also skald.] A war song such as was of yore chanted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons. Sir W. Scott…

A Scandinavian poet; a scald.

Of or pertaining to the scalds of the Norsemen; as, scaldic poetry.

To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.] Milton. Out of this prison help that we may scape. Chaucer.

cience. Voltaire hardly left a single corner of the field entirely unexplored in science, poetry, history, philosophy. J. Morley.

Scotland [Poetic] O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! Burns.

Personification; embodiment. [Poetic.] She was beauty's self. Thomson.

A half foot in poetry.

sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense. To this poetry would be made precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate. Milton.

idactic. [Obsoles.] Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign to his chaste design, Nor spared a useless, though a golden line. Whitehead.

order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels. Isa. vi. 2. As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. Pope. Seraph moth (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of geometrid m…

Serenity; clearness; calmness. [Poetic.] "The serene of heaven." Southey. To their master is denied To share their sweet serene. Young.