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Sax   /sæks/   Listen
Sax

noun
1.
A Belgian maker of musical instruments who invented the saxophone (1814-1894).  Synonym: Adolphe Sax.
2.
A single-reed woodwind with a conical bore.  Synonym: saxophone.






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"Sax" Quotes from Famous Books



... shepherd, evidently bewildered still, so that he forgot his natural awe for his feudal superior. "Are ye the countess's bairn, that's just the age o' our Dougal? Dougal's ane o' the gamekeepers, ye ken—sic a braw fellow—sax feet three. Ye'll ...
— A Noble Life • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

... feckless windlestraes; ye maun awa' to Ingland for ye're healths. Set ye up! I wonder what cam' o' the lasses i' my time, that bute to bide at hame? And whilk o' ye, I sude like to ken, 'II ere leive to see ninety-sax, like me? ...
— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

... the ground, and half drew his sax, and shoved it back again unto the sheath, and then said angrily: "I marvel at thee, Robert, that thou didst not send a man or two at once after the felon: how may I leave my comrade and sweet board-fellow lying ...
— Child Christopher • William Morris

... frae our corner, An', says I, "I'll juist tak' a step upbye an' tell Twa or three things its better to warn her." 'Twas the doctor's negleck o'r, the auld nosey-wax! There's naethin' to dae noo, but beery her, Tammy Chips mak's a kist here at seeven-an'-sax, An' ye'll ...
— The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots • David Rorie

... in the fair Dodhead, But a greeting wife and bairnies three, And sax poor ca's stand in the sta', A' routing loud ...
— A Collection of Ballads • Andrew Lang

... the yard, and no less," she went on, fondling the worn merino, "when we bocht it at Sam'l Curr's. Ay, but it has been turned sax times ...
— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie

... back into their own country, through the narrow Pass of Finstermunz, with bloody heads. Now there was a fresh cause of quarrel. In the division of the Toggenburger inheritance, the rights of Toggenburg in the Ten Jurisdictions had fallen to the counts of Matsch, Sax, and Montfort, and afterward, 1478-1489, by purchase, to the ducal house of ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8 - The Later Renaissance: From Gutenberg To The Reformation • Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson

... this insolent person? A man unquestionably—and, strange to say, there was something not entirely unfamiliar to me in his voice. The girls began to giggle. Their brother was more explicit. "Oh," says Freddy, "it's only Mr. Sax." ...
— Little Novels • Wilkie Collins

... Out of the owner's sight there by the river; Don't drop and break it, or the colt is gone; Carry it gently to your little farm, Put it in bed, and keep it six weeks warm." Quickly Pat seized a huge, ripe, yellow one, "Faith, sure, an' I'll do every bit of that The whole sax wakes I'll lie meself in bed, An' kape it warrum, as your honour said; Long life to yees, and may you niver walk, Not even to your grave, but ride foriver; Good luck to yees," and without more of talk ...
— The Universal Reciter - 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems • Various



Words linked to "Sax" :   single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind, shaper, maker



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