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A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.

ed by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center.

A follower of Robert Sandeman, a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century. See Glassite.

use of sanitary measures; hygiene. How much sanitation has advanced during the last half century. H. Hartshorne.

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

and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries. (b) Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon. (c) A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony.

low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century.

Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents.

Discovered or described by C. V. Schneider, a German anatomist of the seventeenth century. Schneiderian membrane, the mucous membrane which lines the nasal chambers; the pituitary membrane.

ears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors. [Formerly written also cisors, cizars, and scissars.] Scissors grinder (Zoöl.), the European goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]

The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust. under Gorgoniacea, and Coenenchyma. -- Scler`o*ba"sic, a.

A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped.

Linen. -- Scroll chuck (Mach.), an adjustable chuck, applicable to a lathe spindle, for centering and holding work, in which the jaws are adjusted and tightened simultaneously by turning a disk having in its face a spiral groove which is entered by teeth on the backs of the jaws. -- Scroll saw. See under Saw.…

, varying in value, in different parts, but worth about 4 shillings sterling, or about 96 cents; also, a gold coin worth about the same.

An old French gold coin of the value of 3s. 4d. sterling, or about 80 cents.

((Zoöl.) (a) A large marine food fish (Serranus, or Centropristis, atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch.…

ne of several species of sparoid fishes, especially the common European species (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spanish (P. Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); -- called also old wife.

felis, of the eastern coast of the United States. Many species are found on the coasts of Central and South America.

A large serranoid food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found on both coasts of America; -- called also robalo.

A right line drawn from the center of a circle through one end of a circular arc, and terminated by a tangent drawn from the other end; the number expressing the ratio line of this line to the radius of the circle. See Trigonometrical function, under Function.