SAFE-CONDUCT. A security passport granted to an enemy for his safe entry and passage through the realm.
SAFEGUARD. Protection given to secure a people from oppression in time of trouble.
SAFETY-KEEL. A construction of keel for further security, by Oliver Lang.
SAFETY-PIN. To secure the head of the capstan-bar.
SAFETY-VALVE. A conical valve on the top of the steam-chest, communicating with the boiler of a steam-engine, and opening outwardly; it is so adapted and loaded, that when the steam in the boiler exceeds its proper pressure, it raises the valve, and escapes by a pipe called the waste steam-pipe.
SAGG, To. To bend or give way from heavy weight; to press down towards the middle; the opposite of hogging. In Macbeth the word is figuratively applied—
"The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear,
Shall never sagg with doubt, nor shake with fear."
SAGGING TO LEEWARD. To drift off bodily to leeward. The movement by which a ship makes a considerable lee-way.
SAGITTA. One of the ancient northern constellations.
SAGITTARII. The name in our records for some small vessels with oars and sails, used in the twelfth century.