SAUCISSON, or Saucisse. A word formerly used for the powder-hose, a linen tube containing the train of powder to a mine or fire-ship, the slow match being attached to the extremity to afford time for the parties to reach positions of safety.
SAUCISSONS. Faggots, differing from fascines only in that they are longer, and made of stouter branches of trees or underwood.
SAUVE-TETE. See [Splinter-netting].
SAVANNAH [Sp. Sabana]. A name given to the wonderfully fertile natural meadows of tropical America; the vast plains clear of wood, and covered in general with waving herbage, in the interior of North America, are called [prairies] (which see).
SAVE-ALL, or Water-sail. A small sail sometimes set under the foot of a lower studding-sail.
SAW-BILL. A name for the goosander, Mergus merganser.
SAW-BONES. A sobriquet for the surgeon and his assistants.
SAW-FISH. A species of shark (Pristis antiquorum) with the bones of the face produced into a long flat rostrum, with a row of pointed teeth placed along each edge.
SAY-NAY. A Lancashire name for a lamprey.
SAYTH. A coal-fish in its third year.