intive, doleful, piteous, lugubrious,
rueful, mournful, dismal, funereal, gloomy, melancholy, disconsolate,
dejected, touching; calamitous, deplorable, grievous, dire, afflictive,
wretched, saturnine, grave, sober; dull, sombre, subdued; (Colloq.) bad,
naughty, troublesome, mischievous, vexatious.

sadden, v. depress, dishearten; tone down, subdue.

saddle, n. Associated Words: pommel, cantle, girth, pillion,
stirrup, saddle-tree, croup, crutch, chapelet, tilpah, tapadero, housing,
latigo, pique, panel, sinch, saddle-bow, selliform, holster, mochila.

sadness, n. melancholy, pathos, sorrow, gravity, soberness,
seriousness.

safe, a. unharmed, intact, unscathed, immune; trustworthy, reliable,
sure, secure, invulnerable, impregnable. Antonyms: unsafe, endangered,
insecure.

safe-conduct, n. convoy, guard, escort; pass, passport.

safeguard, n. defense, security, palladium, protection, convoy,
guard; passport.

safeguard, v. guard, defend, protect, shield.

safekeeping, n. guardianship, care, custody, charge, preservation.

safety, n. security, custody; immunity, exemption.

sagacious, a. intelligent, knowing, shrewd, discerning.

sagacity, n. intelligence, shrewdness, cleverness, ingenuity, wisdom.

sail, v. navigate, cruise, embark.--n. sailing, cruise,
embarkation.

sailable, a. navigable.

sailcloth, n. canvas, duck, tarpaulin, raven's-duck.

sailing, n. navigation; circumnavigation (sailing round);
orthodromics, orthodromy.

sailor, n. mariner, navigator, seaman, seafarer, tarpaulin, tar,
salt, Jacky.

sailor's song. chantey.

sailor's wages. portage.

saint, n. Associated Words: canonize, canonization, hagiology,
hagiologist, hagiolatry, hagiolater, hagiography, Hagiographa, dulia,
legend, diptych, feretory, philatory, relic, apse, reliquary, shrine,
saintism, sainthood, saintship, hagiographer, hierotheca.

sainted, a. holy, pious, saintly, consecrated; canonized.

Saint Vitus's dance. chorea. Associated Word: choreic.

salable, a. vendible, marketable. Antonyms: unsalable,
unmarketable.

salacious, a. lascivious, lecherous, concupiscent. See lustful.

salad, n. Associated Word: acetarious.

sale, n. vendition, market; auction; handsel.

salient, a. prominent, conspicuous, noticeable, striking.

saliva, n. spittle, sputum, spit. Associated Words: salivate,
salivation, insalivate, insalivation, salivant, salivary, ptyalism,
salival, salivous, expectorant, drool, drivel, ptyalogogue