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

Trial by sample; assay; sample; specimen; smack. [Obs.] if those principal works of God . . . be but certain tastes and saus, as if were, of that final benefit. Hooker. Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes. Shak.

One who says; an utterer. Mr. Curran was something much better than a sayer of smart sayings. Jeffrey.

A mixed stuff, called also sagathy. See Sagathy.

laration; a statement, especially a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb. Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled. Milton.

One who assays. [Obs.]

A master of assay; one who tries or proves. [Obs.] "Great saymaster of state." D. Jonson.

obs. p. p. of Senge, to singe. Chaucer.

See Scoley. [Obs.]

One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.

A tern; the sea swallow. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also sgraye.]

Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (P. vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See Lobster.

A chaise. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

An inclined railway running into the water with a cradelike car on which a vessel may be drawn out on land, as for repairs.

Toward the side; sidewise. A second refraction made sideways. Sir I. Newton. His beard, a good palm's length, at least, . . . Shot sideways, like a swallow's wings. Longfellow.

Having a gray color with a silvery luster; as, silver-gray hair.

[sq. root159.] Skittles. [Obs.]

A vell. [Obs.]

Of a dark gray, like slate.

by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy. With this sword then will I slay you both. Chaucer. I will slay the last of them with the sword. Amos ix. 1. I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk. Shak.