in the decorative arts, glass with a dull matte finish achieved by immersion in hydrofluoric or other abrasive acid. In the 19th century the process was synonymous with "frosting" and ...
(Chloroxylon swietenia), tree of the Rutaceae family native to Southeast Asia, India, and Sri Lanka (Ceylon), or its hard yellowish brown wood, which has a satiny lustre and is used ...
artistic form, chiefly literary and dramatic, in which human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other ...
city, northeastern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is situated on the Tons River, a tributary of the Ganges. The city formerly served as the headquarters of the British political ...
prime minister of Japan between 1964 and 1972, who presided over Japan's post-World War II reemergence as a major world power. For his policies on nuclear weapons, which led to ...
scientist and an early advocate of Westernization in Japan. He favoured the development of an authoritarian type of government based on Western science and political institutions.
in Zen Buddhism of Japan, the inner, intuitive experience of Enlightenment; Satori is said to be unexplainable, indescribable, and unintelligible by reason and logic. It is comparable to the experience ...
range of hills, part of the Deccan Plateau, western India, that stretches for 560 miles (900 km) across the widest part of peninsular India, through Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh states. ...
provincial governor in the Achaemenian Empire. The division of the empire into provinces (satrapies) was completed by Darius I (reigned 522-486 BC), who established 20 satrapies with their annual tribute.
port, south-central Thailand. It lies on the northern Gulf of Thailand coast, at the head of a small bay protected by Phra Island. It was developed as a naval base ...
judet (county), northwestern Romania. The county is bounded on the north by Ukraine and on the west by Hungary. It consists mostly of rolling hills and is drained northwestward by ...
city, northwestern Romania. It lies on the northeastern fringe of the Great Hungarian Plain, on the right bank of the Somes River, 8 miles (13 km) from the Hungarian border ...
town, southern Thailand, on the Malay Peninsula. Satun remains a small community at the end of a branch road; its shallow coastal waters are unsuitable for port development. The area ...
any of several physical or chemical conditions defined by the existence of an equilibrium between pairs of opposing forces or of an exact balance of the rates of opposing processes. ...
second largest planet of the solar system in mass and size and the sixth in distance from the Sun. In the night sky Saturn is easily visible to the unaided ...
in space exploration, any of a series of large two- and three-stage vehicles for launching spacecraft, developed by the United States beginning in 1958 in connection with the manned Apollo ...
in Roman religion, the god of sowing or seed. The Romans equated him with the Greek agricultural deity Cronus. The remains of Saturn's temple at Rome, eight columns of the ...
the ancient Latin verse used mainly by Livius Andronicus and Gnaeus Naevius before the adoption of Greek verse forms by later Latin writers. Little is known about its origins or ...
any of the approximately 800 species of the cosmopolitan (principally tropical) insect family Saturniidae (order Lepidoptera). The thick, silken cocoon of saturniid moths is sometimes used for commercial silk. Adults ...
Roman politician who, with Gaius Servilius Glaucia, opposed the Roman Senate from 104 to 100, at first with the cooperation of Gaius Marius. He was quaestor shortly before 104. As ...
(Hindi: "truth force"), philosophy introduced in the 20th century by Mahatma Gandhi of India; in practice, it is manifested as a determined but nonviolent resistance to some specific evil. Satyagraha ...
(Sanskrit: True Attainment Treatise), treatise in 202 chapters on the doctrine of the void (sunya). The work stands as a philosophical bridge between Hinayana, or Theravada, Buddhism, the form predominant ...
in Greek mythology, creatures of the wild, part man and part beast, who in classical times were closely associated with the god Dionysus. Their Italian counterparts were the Fauns (see ...
any of certain species of butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae (order Lepidoptera), abundant during summer months in the woods and grasslands of the United States and Europe. The adults ...
burlesque comedy performed as comic relief after a classical Greek tragic trilogy. Satyr plays are believed to have developed from the dithyramb, a hymn to Dionysus, concurrently with tragedy. They ...
Native American scholar and educator committed to preserving her Cahuilla culture and language and to promoting their fuller understanding by the larger public.
liquid or semiliquid mixture that is added to a food as it cooks or that is served with it. Sauces provide flavour, moisture, and a contrast in texture and colour. ...
metal or pottery bowl with a lip and handle, used for holding and serving sauces. The earliest type of silver sauceboat, introduced during the second decade of the 18th century, ...
lowermost and oldest major division of Early Miocene rocks and time (23.7 to 16.6 million years ago) on the Pacific coast of North America. The Saucesian Stage, which preceded the ...
(Portuguese: "yearning"), overtone of melancholy and brooding loneliness and an almost mystical reverence for nature that permeates Portuguese and Brazilian lyric poetry. Saudade was a characteristic of the earliest Portuguese ...
country with an area of approximately 868,000 square miles (2,248,000 square kilometres), occupying about four-fifths of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait on the north; ...
American geographer who was an authority on desert studies, tropical areas, the human geography of American Indians, and agriculture and native crops of the New World.
in German cuisine, dish of spiced braised beef. A solid cut from the round or rump is marinated for three or four days in red wine and vinegar flavoured with ...
fermented white cabbage, a vegetable preparation important in the cooking of central Europe. Sauerkraut is prepared by finely shredding white cabbage and layering the vegetable with salt in a large ...
region, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. It is bounded on the north by the Ruhr River and its tributary, the Mohne, and on the south by the Sieg River ...
town (township), Essex county, northeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on the Saugus and Pines rivers, just north of Boston. It was settled in 1629, and its name is derived from ...
an Algonkian-speaking North American Indian tribe closely related to the Fox and the Kickapoo who lived in the region of what is now Green Bay, Wis., when first encountered by ...
city, Stearns county, central Minnesota, U.S. It lies on the Sauk River at the southern tip of Sauk Lake, about 45 miles (70 km) northwest of St. Cloud. Settled in ...
first king of Israel (c. 1021-1000 BC). According to the biblical account found mainly in I Samuel, Saul was chosen king both by the judge Samuel and by public acclamation. ...
city, seat of Algoma district, south-central Ontario, Canada, on the north bank of St. Marys River, between Lakes Superior and Huron, opposite Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., U.S. The site was ...
city, seat (1827) of Chippewa county, northern Michigan, U.S., at the northeastern end of the Upper Peninsula, on the rapids of the St. Marys River (there harnessed for hydropower and ...
bath in steam from water thrown on heated stones, popular in gymnasiums and health clubs, with some units available for home use. The sauna may derive from baths described by ...
Hindu sect widely dispersed throughout India in the Gupta and medieval periods; its members worshiped Surya, the sun, as the supreme deity. Surya as the sun was worshiped by Indians ...
town, northeastern Angola. Located at an elevation of 3,557 feet (1,081 m) above sea level, it is a garrison town and local market centre. Saurimo was formerly named after Henrique ...
any member of one of the two major lineages of dinosaurs, including birds and all dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to Triceratops. In 1888 paleontologist ...
any member of the dinosaur subgroup Sauropoda, marked by large size, a long neck and tail, a four-legged stance, and a herbivorous diet. These reptiles were the largest of all ...
any of the aquatic reptiles found as fossils from the Mesozoic Era (248 million to 65 million years ago). Sauropterygians include the nothosaurs, the pistosaurs, and the plesiosaurs, all of ...
any of about four species of long, slim marine fishes of the family Scomberesocidae (order Atheriniformes). Sauries are small-up to about 35 cm (14 inches) long-and are characterized by beaklike ...
meat product made of finely chopped and seasoned meat, which may be fresh, smoked, or pickled and which is then usually stuffed into a casing. Sausages of fish or poultry ...
(Kigelia pinnata), tropical tree, the only species of its genus (family Bignoniaceae). It grows 6 to 12 m (20 to 40 feet) tall and bears sausagelike fruits, 30 to 60 ...
city, Marin county, western California, U.S. It lies along San Francisco Bay just north of San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge. It was founded in 1838 by William Richardson, ...
Swiss linguist whose ideas on structure in language laid the foundation for much of the approach to and progress of the linguistic sciences in the 20th century.
Swiss chemist and plant physiologist whose quantitative experiments on the influence of water, air, and nutrients on plants laid the foundation for phytochemistry.
ancient school of Buddhism that emerged in India about the 2nd century BC as an offshoot of the Sarvastivada ("All-Is-Real Doctrine"). The school is so called because of its reliance ...
Spanish amateur geologist and archaeologist who excavated Altamira Cave (named a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1985), near Santillana, in northern Spain, ...
Belgian-born American metallurgist whose microscopic and photomicroscopic studies of metal structures make him one of the founders of physical metallurgy.
river in the western Balkans. Its basin, 36,960 square miles (95,720 square km) in area, covers much of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and northern Serbia. It rises in the Triglav group ...
monk, founder, and first archbishop of the independent Serbian Orthodox church. His policy of recognizing the jurisdiction of the patriarch of Constantinople (now Istanbul) ensured the adherence of Serbian Christianity ...
town, western Tasmania, Australia, between the Savage and Whyte rivers. Iron ore was discovered there in 1877, and in 1965 a Japanese, Australian, and American consortium was formed to develop ...
statesman who, as New Zealand's first Labour prime minister (1935-40), won public support for his administration's economic recovery and social-welfare programs.
English poet and satirist and subject of one of the best short biographies in English, Samuel Johnson's An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage (1744).
