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An association, including both Japanese and Europeans, having for its object the changing of the Japanese method of writing by substituting Roman letters for Japanese characters.

e joint between two floors. Saddle bar (Arch.), one the small iron bars to which the lead panels of a glazed window are secured. Oxf. Gloss. -- Saddle gall (Far.), a sore or gall upon a horse's back, made by the saddle. -- Saddle girth, a band passing round the body of a horse to hold the saddle in its place. -- sad…

A Japanese musical instrument with three strings, resembling a guitar or banjo.

Courage; pluck; grit. [Slang] Sand badger (Zoöl.), the Japanese badger (Meles ankuma). -- Sand bag (a) A bag filled with sand or earth, used for various purposes, as in fortification, for ballast, etc. (b) A long bag filled with sand, used as a club by assassins. -- Sand ball, soap mixed with sand, made into a ball f…

The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes.

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

anks, that is, to saw logs or timber into boards or planks; to saw shingles; to saw out a panel.

Elecampane.

Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc.

Emblazoned on or as a shield. Scutcheoned panes in cloisters old. Lowell.

A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent.

An alloy of copper, invented by the Japanese, having a very dark blue color approaching black.

The Japanese warrior gentry or middle class, formerly called samurai; also, any member of this class.

A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.

duce flowers in the popular sense. For this reason the terms Anthrophyta, Phænogamia, and Panerogamia have been superseded as names of the phylum by Spermatophyta.

triangular body and ten long legs. Some of the species grow to great size, as the great Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira Kempferi), measuring sometimes more than fifteen feet across the legs when they are extended. -- Spider fly (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of parasitic dipterous insects of the family Hippobo…

A pane of glass.

g superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc. [Written also squillgee, squillagee, squeegee.]

ing some resemblance to chickweed. -- Yellow starwort, a plant of the genus Inula; elecampane.

the ducal coronet is twined with strawberry leaves. "The strawberry leaves on her chariot panels are engraved on her ladyship's heart." Thackeray. -- Strawberry-leaf roller (Zoöl.), any one of several species of moths whose larvæ roll up, and feed upon, the leaves of the strawberry vine; especially, Phoxopteris fragar…