Săt'urn, n.

n. [Lat. Sa-tur'nus.]

1. (Myth.) One of the oldest and principal deities, the son of Cœlus and Terra (heaven and earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Κρόνος, later Χρόνος, Time.
2. (Astron.) One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy-nine thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly nine hundred millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half.
3. (O. Chem.) The metal lead.
4. (Her.) The black color in blazoning arms; sable.

☞ Formerly by some pronounced Săt'urn.