See Savin.

To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.

A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.

Scamped work. Malicious waste or destruction of an employer's property or injury to his interests by workmen during labor troubles.

A kind of freezer for ices.

See Saber.

To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber.

The curlew.

A leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side, suspended from the sword belt.

Growing in sandy places.

The quality of being sabulous; sandiness; grittiness.

Sandy; gritty.

See 2d Sack.

A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie.

See Saker.

A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.

Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal.

A salt of saccharic acid. In a wider sense, a compound of saccharose, or any similar carbohydrate, with such bases as the oxides of calcium, barium, or lead; a sucrate.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, saccharine substances; specifically, designating an acid obtained, as a white amorphous gummy mass, by the oxidation of mannite, glucose, sucrose, etc.

Producing sugar; as, sacchariferous canes.

To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.

A kind of muslin.

An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts.

Of or pertaining to saccharimetry; obtained by saccharimetry.

The act, process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus.

A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).

A salt of saccharinic acid. A salt of saccharine.

A trade name for benzoic sulphinide.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharin; specifically, designating a complex acid not known in the free state but well known in its salts, which are obtained by boiling dextrose and levulose (invert sugar) with milk of lime.

To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.

Resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone.

A saccharimeter.

A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula.

A family of fungi consisting of the one genus Saccharomyces.

A salt of saccharonic acid.

A white crystalline substance, C6H8O6, obtained by the oxidation of saccharin, and regarded as the lactone of saccharonic acid. An oily liquid, C6H10O2, obtained by the reduction of saccharin.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharone; specifically, designating an unstable acid which is obtained from saccharone (a) by hydration, and forms a well-known series of salts.

Cane sugar; sucrose; also, in general, any one of the group of which saccharose, or sucrose proper, is the type. See Sucrose.

Saccharine.

A genus of tall tropical grasses including the sugar cane.

A salt of saccholactic acid; -- formerly called also saccholate.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called mucic acid; saccholic.

Saccholactic.

A salt of sacchulmic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a dark amorphous substance by the long-continued boiling of sucrose with very dilute sulphuric acid. It resembles humic acid.

An amorphous huminlike substance resembling sacchulmic acid, and produced together with it.

Bearing a sac.

Having the general form of a sac.

Same as Pellibranchiata.

Like a sac; sacciform.

Furnished with little sacs.

A little sac; specifically, the sacculus of the ear.

Pertaining to the sacculus and cochlea of the ear.

Pertaining to the sacculus and utriculus of the ear.

A little sac; esp., a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear.

A sac.

An unroofed space consecrated to a divinity. A small monumental chapel in a church.

Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions.

The system, style, spirit, or character, of a priesthood, or sacerdotal order; devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order.

In a sacerdotal manner.

A chief of a tribe of the American Indians; a sagamore.

The government or jurisdiction of a sachem.

Office or condition of a sachem.

A scent bag, or perfume cushion, to be laid among handkerchiefs, garments, etc., to perfume them.

Satiety.

To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.

Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing; -- said of certain bats of the genus Saccopteryx.

The act of taking by storm and pillaging; sack.

A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone.

Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence.

Clothed in sackcloth.

One who sacks; one who takes part in the storm and pillage of a town.

Bent on plunder.

Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.

Quiet; peaceable; harmless; innocent.

Same as 2d Sack, 3.

Of or pertaining to the sacrum; in the region of the sacrum.

To bind by an oath.

That which relates to a sacrament.

The doctrine and use of sacraments; attachment of excessive importance to sacraments.

One who holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ's body and blood in the holy eucharist.

In a sacramental manner.

Of or pertaining a sacrament, or to the sacramentals; sacramental.

An ancient book of the Roman Catholic Church, written by Pope Gelasius, and revised, corrected, and abridged by St. Gregory, in which were contained the rites for Mass, the sacraments, the dedication of churches, and other ceremonies. There are several ancient books of the same kind in France and Germany.

To administer the sacraments.

A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans, devoted to a special divinity.

To consecrate.

Consecration.

To consecrate; to make sacred.

Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred service.

Capable of being offered in sacrifice.

Employed in sacrifice.

One who offers a sacrifice.

A sacrificer; one who offers a sacrifice.

Offering sacrifice.

To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.

One who sacrifices.

Of or pertaining to sacrifice or sacrifices; consisting in sacrifice; performing sacrifice.

The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses.

Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious.

One guilty of sacrilege.

a. n. from Sacre.

A sacristan; also, a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and take care of the books.

An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton.

An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.

Sacred; inviolable.

Of or pertaining to both the sacrum and the hip; as, the sacrosciatic foramina formed by the sacrosciatic ligaments which connect the sacrum and the hip bone.

Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.

That part of the vertebral column which is directly connected with, or forms a part of, the pelvis.

A tribe of Indians, which, together with the Foxes, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin.

To make sorrowful; to sadden.

Seasonal affective disorder.

A work in the Persian tongue, being a summary of the Zend-Avesta, or sacred books.

To become, or be made, sad.

Same as Sadda.

To put a saddle upon; to equip (a beast) for riding.

Having the outline of the upper part concave like the seat of a saddle.

Shaped like a saddle. Bent down at the sides so as to give the upper part a rounded form.

Anything saddle-backed; esp., a hill or ridge having a concave outline at the top.

Bags, usually of leather, united by straps or a band, formerly much used by horseback riders to carry small articles, one bag hanging on each side.