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 small bag.

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.

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.

The bow or arch in the front part of a saddle, or the pieces which form the front.

A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.

Having a broad patch of color across the back, like a saddle; saddle-backed.

One who makes saddles.

The materials for making saddles and harnesses; the articles usually offered for sale in a saddler's shop.

The frame of a saddle.

Pertaining to, or like, the Sadducees; as, Sadducaic reasonings.

One of a sect among the ancient Jews, who denied the resurrection, a future state, and the existence of angels.

The tenets of the Sadducees.

To adopt the principles of the Sadducees.

A member of a monotheistic sect of Hindoos. Sadhs resemble the Quakers in many respects.

An iron for smoothing clothes; a flatiron.

Wearily; heavily; firmly.

Heaviness; firmness.

A plant of the genus Ziziphus (Ziziphus lotus); -- so called by the Arabs of Barbary, who use its berries for food. See Lotus (b).

A singers' union; an association of singers or singing clubs, esp. German.

A festival of singers; a German singing festival.

To render safe; to make right.

To conduct safely; to give safe-conduct to.

The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.

A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time.

To guard; to protect.

In a safe manner; danger, injury, loss, or evil consequences.

The quality or state of being safe; freedom from hazard, danger, harm, or loss; safety; security; as the safeness of an experiment, of a journey, or of a possession.

The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.

The safflower.

An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron.

To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.

Having a color somewhat like saffron; yellowish.

An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron. A red dyestuff extracted from the safflower, and formerly used in dyeing wool, silk, and cotton pink and scarlet; -- called also Spanish red, China lake, and carthamin. An orange-red dyestuff prepared from certain nitro compounds of creosol, and used as a substitute for the safflower dye.

An orange-red nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificially by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool; also, any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type.

State of sinking or bending; sagging.

A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time.

Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.

The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.

The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank.

Sagapenum.

A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with. See also asafetida.

A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton, or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric.

A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.