Holiness; sacredness; sanctity.

The state or quality of being sacred or holy; holiness; saintliness; moral purity; godliness.

To shelter by means of a sanctuary or sacred privileges.

A sacred place; a consecrated spot; a holy and inviolable site. The most retired part of the temple at Jerusalem, called the Holy of Holies, in which was kept the ark of the covenant, and into which no person was permitted to enter except the high priest, and he only once a year, to intercede for the people; also, the most sacred part of the tabernacle; also, the temple at Jerusalem. The most sacred part of any religious building, esp. that part of a Christian church in which the altar is placed. A house consecrated to the worship of God; a place where divine service is performed; a church, temple, or other place of worship. A sacred and inviolable asylum; a place of refuge and protection; shelter; refuge; protection.

A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum.

A part of the Mass, or, in Protestant churches, a part of the communion service, of which the first words in Latin are Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus [Holy, holy, holy]; -- called also Tersanctus.

To sprinkle or cover with sand.

Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind.

Lit., of or pert. to a lot or piece of sandy ground, -- hence, pert. to, or characteristic of, the policy or practices of the socialistic or communistic followers of the Irish agitator Denis Kearney, who delivered many of his speeches in the open sand lots about San Francisco; as, the sand-lot constitution of California, framed in 1879, under the influence of sand-lot agitation.

A kind of shoe consisting of a sole strapped to the foot; a protection for the foot, covering its lower surface, but not its upper. A kind of slipper. An overshoe with parallel openings across the instep.

Wearing sandals.

Shaped like a sandal or slipper.

The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and Santalum pyrularium, the Australian Santalum latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood. Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood. The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus).

Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic.

To treat harshly or unfairly.

An assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand bag, under Sand.

Covered or sprinkled with sand; sandy; barren.

A follower of Robert Sandeman, a Scotch sectary of the eighteenth century. See Glassite.

The faith or system of the Sandemanians.

A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover.

An old name of sandalwood, now applied only to the red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood.

See Saunders-blue.

See Sandiver.

A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America (Trichodon trichodon) which buries itself in the sand.

An instrument for measuring time by the running of sand. See Hourglass.

A nickname given to any /poor white/ living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina.

The quality or state of being sandy, or of being of a sandy color.

Approaching the nature of sand; loose; not compact.

A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall.

A kind of minium, or red lead, made by calcining carbonate of lead, but inferior to true minium.

a vacant lot, especially one where children play games.

A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.

A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker.

To smooth or polish with sandpaper; as, to sandpaper a door.

Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidae.

A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.

A Russian fish (Lucioperca sandre) which yields a valuable oil, called sandre oil, used in the preparation of caviar.

A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.

To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.

Any one of numerous species of annelids which burrow in the sand of the seashore. Any species of annelids of the genus Sabellaria. They construct firm tubes of agglutinated sand on rocks and shells, and are sometimes destructive to oysters. The chigoe, a species of flea.

Any plant of the genus Arenaria, low, tufted herbs (order Caryophyllaceae.)

Consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil.

See Sandix.

Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind.

The state of being sane; sanity.

imp. of Sing.

Freedom from agitation or excitement of mind; coolness in trying circumstances; indifference; calmness.

Wine and water sweetened and spiced, -- a favorite West Indian drink.

See Sanjak.

See Holy Grail, under Grail.

The Abyssinian ox (Bos Africanus syn. Bibos Africanus), noted for the great length of its horns. It has a hump on its back.

Conveying blood; as, sanguiferous vessels, i. e., the arteries, veins, capillaries.

The production of blood; the conversion of the products of digestion into blood; hematosis.

A producer of blood.

Flowing or running with blood.

To produce blood from.

Producing blood; as, sanguigenous food.

Of a blood-red color; sanguine.

A genus of plants of the Poppy family.

In a sanguinary manner.

The yarrow. The Sanguinaria.

To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.

Destitute of blood; pale.

In a sanguine manner.

The quality of being sanguine.

Abounding with blood; sanguine.

The quality of being sanguine; sanguineness.

Subsisting on blood.

The state of being sanguinolent, or bloody.

Tinged or mingled with blood; bloody; as, sanguinolent sputa.

A bloodsucker, or leech.

Subsisting upon blood; -- said of certain blood-sucking bats and other animals. See Vampire.

the great council of the Jews, which consisted of seventy members, to whom the high priest was added. It had jurisdiction of religious matters.

A member of the sanhedrin.

A collection of vedic hymns, songs, or verses, forming the first part of each Veda.

Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sanicula, reputed to have healing powers.

A variety of orthoclase feldspar common in certain eruptive rocks, as trachyte; -- called also glassy feldspar.

A thin, serous fluid commonly discharged from ulcers or foul wounds.

Pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and appearance; thin and serous, with a slight bloody tinge; as, the sanious matter of an ulcer.

An advocate of sanitary measures; one especially interested or versed in sanitary measures.

A sanitarian.

A health station or retreat; a sanatorium.

Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory.

The act of rendering sanitary; the science of sanitary conditions; the preservation of health; the use of sanitary measures; hygiene.

The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.

A district or a subvision of a vilayet.

imp. of Sink.

A chank shell (Turbinella pyrum); also, a shell bracelet or necklace made in India from the chank shell.

A Hindu system of philosophy which refers all things to soul and a rootless germ called prakriti, consisting of three elements, goodness, passion, and darkness.

Same as Sannup.

A married male Indian; a brave; -- correlative of squaw.

The sandpiper.

Without; deprived or destitute of. Rarely used as an English word.

A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.

Pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical.

Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.

Without care; free and easy.

See Sanskrit.

Of or pertaining to Sanskrit; written in Sanskrit; as, a Sanskrit dictionary or inscription.

Sanskrit.

One versed in Sanskrit.

A colorless crystalline substance, isomeric with piperonal, but having weak acid properties. It is extracted from sandalwood.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Santalaceae), of which the genus Santalum is the type, and which includes the buffalo nut and a few other North American plants, and many peculiar plants of the southern hemisphere.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sandalwood (Santalum); -- used specifically to designate an acid obtained as a resinous or red crystalline dyestuff, which is called also santalin.

Santalic acid. See Santalic.

A genus of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers. There are less than a dozen species, occurring from India to Australia and the Pacific Islands. See Sandalwood.

One of the seven confederated tribes of Indians belonging to the Sioux, or Dakotas.

See Saunter.

A Turkish saint; a kind of dervish, regarded by the people as a saint: also, a hermit.

A salt of santonic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid (distinct from santoninic acid) obtained from santonin as a white crystalline substance.

A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass.

A salt of santoninic acid.

Of or pertaining to santonin; -- used specifically to designate an acid not known in the free state, but obtained in its salts.

Any marine annelid of the genus Hyalinaecia, especially Hyalinaecia tubicola of Europe, which inhabits a transparent movable tube resembling a quill in color and texture.

A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

See Sapodila.

The sapajou.

Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, having long and prehensile tails. Some of the species are called also capuchins. The bonnet sapajou (Cebus subcristatus), the golden-handed sapajou (Cebus chrysopus), and the white-throated sapajou (Cebus hypoleucus) are well known species. See Capuchin.

Abounding in sap; sappy.