A piece of spoilt timber in a coach-maker's shop, like a saint, devoted to the flames.
·noun One canonized by the church. II. Saint ·vi To act or live as a saint. III. Saint ·noun One o...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
One separated from the world and consecrated to God; one holy by profession and by covenant; a belie...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
·noun An object of interest to the eye; one worshiped with the eyes. ...
·noun A follower of the Count de St. Simon, who died in 1825, and who maintained that the principle ...
·noun The principles, doctrines, or practice of the Saint-Simonians; — called also Saint- Simonism....
·add. ·noun A system of socialism in which the state owns all the property and the laborer is entitl...
A holiday most religiously observed by journeymen shoemakers, and other inferior mechanics. a profan...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The old notion is, that if it should rain on this bishop's day, the 15th of July, not one of forty d...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·- A Mormon; — the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole ...
Never, there being no saint of that name: tomorrow-come-never, when two Sundays come together. ...
An ox; that Evangelist being always represented with an ox. ...
The Anas mollissima; the eider, or great black and white duck of the Farne Islands. ...
See compasant. ...