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A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

A powerful instrument of brass, curved somewhat like the Roman buccina, or tuba.

Of or pertaining to rocks; living among rocks; as, a saxatile plant.

en to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with valves, invented by Antoine Joseph Sax (known as Adolphe Sax), of Belgium and Paris, and much used in military bands and in orchestras.

Any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava. Some of the species are noted for their power of boring holes in limestone and similar rocks.

Of or pertaining to the saxicavas. -- n.

Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See Illust. of Lithodomus.

Stone-inhabiting; pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, the stonechats.

Growing on rocks.

nus of exogenous polypetalous plants, embracing about one hundred and eighty species. See Saxifrage.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Saxifragaceæ) of which saxifrage is the type. The order includes also the alum root, the hydrangeas, the mock orange, currants and gooseberries, and many other plants.

Breaking or destroying stones; saxifragous. [R.] -- n.

Any plant of the genus Saxifraga, mostly perennial herbs growing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions. Burnet saxifrage, a European umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella Saxifraga). -- Golden saxifrage, a low half-sacculent herb (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium) growing in rivulets in Europe; also, C. Americanum, commo…

Dissolving stone, especially dissolving stone in the bladder.

d 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.

relating to the saxons or Anglo-Saxons.

An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language. T. Warton.

One versed in the Saxon language.

See Mountain soap, under Mountain.

Saxony yarn, or flannel made of it or similar yarn.