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The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a principality. Milton.

A kind of ornamental hard-glazed pottery made at Satsuma in Kiushu, one of the Japanese islands.

Capable of being saturated; admitting of saturation. -- Sat`u*ra*bil"i*ty, n.

Impregnating to the full; saturating.

To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate. Innumerable flocks and herbs covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic. Macaulay. Fill and saturate each kind With good according to its mind. Emerson.

Filled to repletion; holding by absorption, or in solution, all that is possible; as, saturated garments; a saturated solution of salt.

The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.

One who, or that which, saturates.

The seventh or last day of the week; the day following Friday and preceding Sunday.

The state of being saturated; fullness of supply. [Obs.] Warner.

ty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.

the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.

Of or pertaining to the Saturnalia.

Of or pertaining to Saturn, whose age or reign, from the mildness and wisdom of his government, is called the golden age.

Appearing as if seen from the center of the planet Saturn; relating or referred to Saturn as a center.

Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn.

Plumbum. Quain.

A person of a dull, grave, gloomy temperament. W. browne.

part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness. Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, From the glad sound would not be absent long. Milton.

Immoderate venereal appetite in the male. Quain.