Savor - SA'VOR, n. [L. sapor, sapio, to taste.]
1. Taste or odor; something that perceptibly affects the organs of taste and smell; as the savor of an orange or rose; an ill savor; a sweet savor.
I smell sweet savors -
In Scripture, it usually denotes smell, scent, odor.
Lev 26. Eccl 10.
2. The quality which renders a thing valuable; the quality which renders other bodies agreeable to the taste.
If the salt hath lost its savor - Mat 5.
3. In Scripture, character; reputation. Exo 5.
4. Cause; occasion. 2 Cor 2.
Sweet savor, in Scripture, denotes that which renders a thing acceptable to God, or his acceptance. Hence, to smell a sweet savor, is to accept the offering or service. Gen 8.
SA'VOR, v.i.
1. To have a particular smell or taste.
2. To partake of the quality or nature of; or to have the appearance of. The answers savor of a humble spirit; or they savor of pride.
I have rejected every thing that savors of party.
SA'VOR, v.t.
1. To like; to taste or smell with pleasure.
2. To like; to delight in; to favor. Mat 16.
Say - SAY, v.t. pret. and pp. said, contracted from sayed.
1. To speak; to utter in words; as, he said nothing; he said many things; he says not a word. Say a good word for me.
It is observable that although this word is radically synonymous with speak and tell, yet the uses are applications of these words are different. Thus we say, to speak an oration, to tell a story; but in these phrases, say cannot be used. Yet to say a lesson is good English, though not very elegant. We never use the phrases to say a sermon or discourse, to say an argument, to say a speech, to say testimony.
A very general use of say is to introduce a relation, narration or recital, either of the speaker himself or of something said or done or to be done by another. Thus Adam said, this is bone of my bone; Noah said, blessed be the Lord God of Shem.
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves. Say to the cities of Judah, behold your God. I cannot say what I should do in a similar case. Say thus precedes a sentence. But it is perhaps impracticable to reduce the peculiar and appropriate uses of say, speak and tell, to general rules. They can be learned only by observation.
2. To declare. Gen 38.
3. To utter; to pronounce.
Say now Shibboleth. Judg 12.
4. To utter, as a command.
God said, let there be light. Gen 1.
5. To utter, as a promise. Luke 23.
6. To utter, as a question or answer. Mark 11.
7. To affirm; to teach. Mat 17.
8. To confess. Luke 17.
9. To testify. Acts 26.
10. To argue; to allege by way of argument.
After all that can be said against a thing -
11. To repeat; to rehearse; to recite; as, to say a lesson.
12. To pronounce; to recite without singing. Then shall be said or sung as follows.
13. To report; as in the phrases, it is said, they say.
14. To answer; to utter by way of reply; to tell.
Say, Stella, feel you no content, reflecting on a life well spent?
[Note - This verb is not properly intransitive. In the phrase, "as when we say, Plato is no fool," the last clause is the object after the verb; that is, "we say what follows." If this verb is properly intransitive in any case, it is in the phrase, "that is to say," but in such cases, the subsequent clause is the object of the verb, being that which is said, uttered or related.]
SAY, n. A speech; something said. [In popular use, but not elegant.]
SAY, n. [for assay.]
1. A sample. Obs.
2. Trial by sample. Obs.
SAY, n. A thin silk. Obs.
Scrip - SCRIP, n. [This belongs to the root of gripe, our vulgar grab, that is, to seize or press.]
A small bag; a wallet; a satchel. David put five smooth stones in a scrip. 1 Sam 17. Mat 10.
SCRIP, n. [L. scriptum, scriptio, from scribo, to write.]
A small writing, certificate or schedule; a piece of paper containing a writing.
Bills of exchange cannot pay our debts abroad, till scrips of paper can be made current coin.
A certificate of stock subscribed to a bank or other company, or of a share of other joint property, is called in America a scrip.
Scroll - SCROLL, n. [probably formed from roll, or its root.]
A roll of paper or parchment; or a writing formed into a roll.
Here is the scroll of every man's name.
The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. Isa 34.
Seal - SEAL, n. The common name for the species of the genus Phoca. These animals are ampibious, most of the inhabiting the sea coasts, particularly in the higher latitudes. They have six cutting teeth in the upper jaw, and four in the lower. Their hind feet are placed at the extremity of the body, in the same diretion with it, and serve the purpose of a caudal fin; the fore feet are also adapted for swimming, and furmished each with five claws; the external ears are either very small or wanting. There are numerous species; as the leonina, sometimes 18 feet in length, and the jubata, sometimes 25 feet in length, with a name like a lion, both called sea-lion, and found in the southern seas, and alo in the N. Pacific; the ursina, or sea bear, 8 or 9 feet in length, and covered with long, thick bristly hair, found in the N. Pacifac; and the common seal frome 4 to 6 feet in length, found generally throughout the Atlantic and the seas and bays communicating with it, covered with short, stiff, glossy hair, with a smooth head without external ears, and with the fore legs deeply immersed in the skin. Seals are much sought after for their skins and fur.
SEAL, n. [L. sigillum.]
1. A piece of metal or other hard substance, usually round or oval, on which is ingraved some image or device, and sometimes a legend or inscription. This is used by idividuals, corporate bodies and states, for making impressions on wax upon instuments of writing, as an evidence of their authenticity. The king of England has his seal and his privy seal. Seals are sometimes worn in rings.
2. The wax set to an instument, and impressed or stamped with a seal. Thus we give a deed under had and seel. Wax is generally used in sealing instruments, but other substances may be used.
3. The wax or wafer that makes fast a letter or other paper.
4. Any act of confirmation.
5. That which confirms, ratifies or makes stable; assurance. 2 Tim 2.
6. That which effectually shuts, confines or secures; that which makes fast. Rev 20.
SEAL, v. t.
1. To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer or with wax; as, to seal a letter.
2. To set or affix a seal as a mark of authenticity; as, to seal a deed. Hence,
3. To confirm; to ratify; to establish.
And with my hand I seal our true hearts' love. Shak.
When therefore I hace performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you in Spain. Rom 15.
4. To shut or keep close; sometimes with up. Seal your lips; seal up you lips.
Open your ears, and seal your bosom upon the secret conserns of a friend. Dwight.
5. To make fast.
So they went and made the sepulcher sure, sealing the stone and settig a watch.
Mat 27.
6. To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality. By our laws, weights and measures are to be sealed by an officer appointe and sworn for that purpose; and lether is to be sealed by a like officer, as evidence that it has been inspected and found to be of good quality.
7. To keep secret.
Shut up the words, and seal the book. Dan 11. Isa 8.
8. To mark as ones property, and secure from danger.
9. To close; to fulfill; to complete; with up.
10. To imprint on the ; as, to seal instruction.
11. To inclose; to hide; to conceal.
12. To confine; to restrain.
13. In architecture, to fix a piece of wood or iron in a wall with cement.
SEAL, v.i. To fix a seal.
I will seal unto this bond. [Unusual.] Shak.